[Music]
[Applause]
twelve years ago my life changed forever
a man came into my office desperate for
help
following a double knee replacement he
was no longer able to stand up for more
than two minutes without being an
excruciating pain and getting up from a
chair without the use of his cane had
become virtually impossible he was in
constant pain he was desperate he was
angry and he was also very skeptical
being a retired doctor he had consulted
every doctor specialist and
physiotherapist and according to him
none of them could help I remember this
moment vividly because he came into my
office with all five of his daughters
and his wife and he asked me what I
could possibly do to help so I proceeded
on explaining that I was going to
optimize the sensory input going into
his brain to change the way that his
brain perceived where his body was in
space and as he stood up for the first
time pain-free and without his cane all
of them broke out in tears and ran
towards me it was one of the most
inspiring moments I had ever felt and it
shaped my career and my life I’m a
pathologist but not the type of Parcher
specialist that’s going to give you
stretching exercises to loosen your
muscles I’m more interested in the way
that our brain communicates with our
body and what I want to do today is
challenge our definition of posture and
the impact that it has on our lives so
when I say posture specialist most of us
think about standing up straight some of
you are doing it right now
telling her children not to slouch some
of us might even think the
text-messaging being on the computer all
day or even walking with a heavy bag
might be the cause of poor posture what
if I told you that our posture has
nothing to do with any of these things
because guess what we can’t control our
posture consciously our posture is
controlled by the unconscious part of
our brain just like heart rate and
breathing so we can’t actually try
harder to have better posture
let me explain our brain is the master
computer and our muscles respond to its
commands our brain allows our muscles to
move based on two fundamental rules our
feet must be aligned on the ground and
our eyes must be aligned with the
horizon our posture is developed over
time through our experience of the
environment with our feet in our eyes
from the moment that we are born we feel
the ground with our feet and we see the
world with our eyes this eventually
helps us raise our head which
strengthens our neck and back muscles to
allow us to walk so when we talk about
posture the development of our feet in
our eyes is key let’s change gears for a
second and compare our body to a Formula
One car our feet represent the wheels
and our eyes the steering wheel if the
feet or if the wheels were misaligned or
uneven it would be easy to understand
why the car would eventually break down
it would be easy to understand that the
performance of the car was secondary to
the state of the car well think of our
body it is that Formula One car
the tricky part here is that we don’t
know that we’re misaligned we can’t
imagine standing or moving in any other
way than we’ve learned how to move in
where that comes into play is when we
start to feel aches and pain when our
body starts breaking down but before
that we might have noticed that her
shoes are wearing out on evenly that our
head is always tilted on one side or
even that one shoulder or one hip
is always lower now because these
partial imbalances are common that’s 90%
of the world’s population we come to
believe that they are normal but there
are not normal
let’s talk about one area that’s
essential for good posture our feet the
wheels of a Formula One car the weight
distribution on our feet tells our brain
where our body is in space the sensory
receptors in the skin of our foot are
connected to the intrinsic muscles of
our spine to help us fight gravity
efficiently a foot imbalance is actually
quite common 72% of us have some kind of
foot imbalance and don’t know it that’s
72 percent of kids of the elderly 72
percent of the people in this room today
are already unbalanced our tires are
uneven now here is a professional
cyclist who after improving her foot
posture was able to reduce her Boley
goodness which was at the cause of her
knee pain in just three months now let’s
talk about the other extremity of the
body our eyes the way that our eyes move
allows our brain to Telegraph the exact
position of our head on our shoulders my
muscle imbalance also known as
convergence disorders is quite common
nine people out of 10 have an eye muscle
imbalance as seen here the child’s right
eye left eye is unbalanced now why is
this important well because the way that
our eye moves allows us to calculate
distances properly is the car here or
here it also affects her reading and
writing skills
is it an 8 or is it a B this is where we
may end up with a child that ends up
reading the words backwards not because
they see the word as backwards but
because their eyes end up at the end of
the word and then come back to the
beginning and they don’t realize that
that’s what’s happened and because we
position our
body according to what we see an eye
muscle imbalance also caused postural
postural and muscular imbalances over
time these partial imbalances cross
chronic pain and chronic pain causes
chronic inflammation and thats dangerous
why well because chronic inflammation is
that the cause of many serious diseases
like heart disease some forms of cancer
and neurodegenerative conditions like
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
now here’s an eight-year-old girl who
after improving her foot posture and her
eye movements was able to improve her
posture in just three weeks so when we
talk about posture our feet and eyes is
key so why we’re not looking at the
brain when it comes to conditions like
lower back pain knee pain hip pain
shoulder pain cognition digestion
problems or even chronic pain well
because our healthcare system is not
designed to prevent it is designed to
manage symptoms and because no one is
truly looking at the real cause of our
pain our feet and our eyes our partial
imbalances remain over time these
partial imbalances will force us and
prevent us from moving properly now
there is a direct correlation between
our pain our posture and our quality of
life let me show you is there anyone in
the audience ideally in the first few
rows that has lower back pain right now
yes
hi good yourself what’s your name Atena
Atena nice to meet you
so what I’m going to do with Atena is
I’m simply going to ask her to look at
the tip of this pen and what I want us
to look for is to see if one eye is
having a harder time focusing on the
target
Atena you out of ten what is the pain
level that you have right now ten being
the most one being the least five six at
this present time
okay can you face the audience for me so
just try to relax and here we go I’m
going to position the pen
look straight ahead please and look at
the tip of the pen so we could see that
atenas left eye is not converging
properly now because we position our
body according to what we see a 10 out
we’ll have a postural imbalance in this
case a lower shoulder let me show you
please look straight ahead and try to
relax
here we go just so we could see that a
tenez right arm is longer so I’m now
going to proceed on stimulating I should
say optimizing the sensory input going
in at NS brain by doing simple eye
exercises the first step is simply to
draw a line on her index finger right
over here so you have it right here
and then I’m going to proceed on doing
clockwise circles so a 1000 I’m gonna
ask you to look straight ahead and let
me just guide you like this give me a
finger and I want you to focus on the
line you have it so let your eyes move
all right so what I’m doing now is
simple clockwise exercises clockwise for
Atena anti-clockwise for the audience
I’m going in and out in and out and I’m
simply forcing her eyes to work together
beautiful
are you okay very good all good is your
pain still five out of ten three four so
there’s a bit of an improvement let’s
see how her eyes are moving so we’ll do
the same test as we did before so if you
can look straight ahead and please look
at the tip of the pen and we could see
that there’s a slight improvement
so if her eyes are moving better than
her posture will also improve let’s look
at your shoulders
Thank You Athena
so as a quick recap the eye exercises
need to be performed three times a day
for approximately thirty seconds the
first step is simply to draw a line on
your index finger your dominant index
finger which means that if you’re
right-handed it will be your right hand
and if you’re left-handed it will be
your left now I want you to start
approximately at 15 centimetres and
bring your finger close to your nose
until you feel that your eyes are
straining at this point I want you to
start moving doing clockwise exercises
clockwise for yourself and no higher
than your mid forehead no lower than
your nose not passing the borders of the
face repeat three times a day morning
afternoon and at supper time so I
exercises are a quick and efficient way
to instantly align our posture and
decrease our pain by seeing our posture
not as a result of biomechanical
structure but rather as a result of
continuous unconscious brain output we
can change our therapeutic approach our
focus shifts upstream to the brain and
not downstream to the muscles and joints
tiny tweaks lead to big changes in just
one minute
a day one minute a day so every day
let’s do some eye exercises so that we
can improve our brain body connection
but let’s also share the science because
it is simple because it is logical share
it with our friends share it with our
families so that we can help improve
their lives so that we can help shape
their lives when talking about true
prevention looking at the brain is key
we can’t afford to live with poor
posture we cannot afford to live with
pain but we can afford one minute a day
to change faulty motor bat patterns and
give ourselves a chance at a better
quality of life thank you
you
[Applause]
twelve years ago my life changed forever
a man came into my office desperate for
help
following a double knee replacement he
was no longer able to stand up for more
than two minutes without being an
excruciating pain and getting up from a
chair without the use of his cane had
become virtually impossible he was in
constant pain he was desperate he was
angry and he was also very skeptical
being a retired doctor he had consulted
every doctor specialist and
physiotherapist and according to him
none of them could help I remember this
moment vividly because he came into my
office with all five of his daughters
and his wife and he asked me what I
could possibly do to help so I proceeded
on explaining that I was going to
optimize the sensory input going into
his brain to change the way that his
brain perceived where his body was in
space and as he stood up for the first
time pain-free and without his cane all
of them broke out in tears and ran
towards me it was one of the most
inspiring moments I had ever felt and it
shaped my career and my life I’m a
pathologist but not the type of Parcher
specialist that’s going to give you
stretching exercises to loosen your
muscles I’m more interested in the way
that our brain communicates with our
body and what I want to do today is
challenge our definition of posture and
the impact that it has on our lives so
when I say posture specialist most of us
think about standing up straight some of
you are doing it right now
telling her children not to slouch some
of us might even think the
text-messaging being on the computer all
day or even walking with a heavy bag
might be the cause of poor posture what
if I told you that our posture has
nothing to do with any of these things
because guess what we can’t control our
posture consciously our posture is
controlled by the unconscious part of
our brain just like heart rate and
breathing so we can’t actually try
harder to have better posture
let me explain our brain is the master
computer and our muscles respond to its
commands our brain allows our muscles to
move based on two fundamental rules our
feet must be aligned on the ground and
our eyes must be aligned with the
horizon our posture is developed over
time through our experience of the
environment with our feet in our eyes
from the moment that we are born we feel
the ground with our feet and we see the
world with our eyes this eventually
helps us raise our head which
strengthens our neck and back muscles to
allow us to walk so when we talk about
posture the development of our feet in
our eyes is key let’s change gears for a
second and compare our body to a Formula
One car our feet represent the wheels
and our eyes the steering wheel if the
feet or if the wheels were misaligned or
uneven it would be easy to understand
why the car would eventually break down
it would be easy to understand that the
performance of the car was secondary to
the state of the car well think of our
body it is that Formula One car
the tricky part here is that we don’t
know that we’re misaligned we can’t
imagine standing or moving in any other
way than we’ve learned how to move in
where that comes into play is when we
start to feel aches and pain when our
body starts breaking down but before
that we might have noticed that her
shoes are wearing out on evenly that our
head is always tilted on one side or
even that one shoulder or one hip
is always lower now because these
partial imbalances are common that’s 90%
of the world’s population we come to
believe that they are normal but there
are not normal
let’s talk about one area that’s
essential for good posture our feet the
wheels of a Formula One car the weight
distribution on our feet tells our brain
where our body is in space the sensory
receptors in the skin of our foot are
connected to the intrinsic muscles of
our spine to help us fight gravity
efficiently a foot imbalance is actually
quite common 72% of us have some kind of
foot imbalance and don’t know it that’s
72 percent of kids of the elderly 72
percent of the people in this room today
are already unbalanced our tires are
uneven now here is a professional
cyclist who after improving her foot
posture was able to reduce her Boley
goodness which was at the cause of her
knee pain in just three months now let’s
talk about the other extremity of the
body our eyes the way that our eyes move
allows our brain to Telegraph the exact
position of our head on our shoulders my
muscle imbalance also known as
convergence disorders is quite common
nine people out of 10 have an eye muscle
imbalance as seen here the child’s right
eye left eye is unbalanced now why is
this important well because the way that
our eye moves allows us to calculate
distances properly is the car here or
here it also affects her reading and
writing skills
is it an 8 or is it a B this is where we
may end up with a child that ends up
reading the words backwards not because
they see the word as backwards but
because their eyes end up at the end of
the word and then come back to the
beginning and they don’t realize that
that’s what’s happened and because we
position our
body according to what we see an eye
muscle imbalance also caused postural
postural and muscular imbalances over
time these partial imbalances cross
chronic pain and chronic pain causes
chronic inflammation and thats dangerous
why well because chronic inflammation is
that the cause of many serious diseases
like heart disease some forms of cancer
and neurodegenerative conditions like
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
now here’s an eight-year-old girl who
after improving her foot posture and her
eye movements was able to improve her
posture in just three weeks so when we
talk about posture our feet and eyes is
key so why we’re not looking at the
brain when it comes to conditions like
lower back pain knee pain hip pain
shoulder pain cognition digestion
problems or even chronic pain well
because our healthcare system is not
designed to prevent it is designed to
manage symptoms and because no one is
truly looking at the real cause of our
pain our feet and our eyes our partial
imbalances remain over time these
partial imbalances will force us and
prevent us from moving properly now
there is a direct correlation between
our pain our posture and our quality of
life let me show you is there anyone in
the audience ideally in the first few
rows that has lower back pain right now
yes
hi good yourself what’s your name Atena
Atena nice to meet you
so what I’m going to do with Atena is
I’m simply going to ask her to look at
the tip of this pen and what I want us
to look for is to see if one eye is
having a harder time focusing on the
target
Atena you out of ten what is the pain
level that you have right now ten being
the most one being the least five six at
this present time
okay can you face the audience for me so
just try to relax and here we go I’m
going to position the pen
look straight ahead please and look at
the tip of the pen so we could see that
atenas left eye is not converging
properly now because we position our
body according to what we see a 10 out
we’ll have a postural imbalance in this
case a lower shoulder let me show you
please look straight ahead and try to
relax
here we go just so we could see that a
tenez right arm is longer so I’m now
going to proceed on stimulating I should
say optimizing the sensory input going
in at NS brain by doing simple eye
exercises the first step is simply to
draw a line on her index finger right
over here so you have it right here
and then I’m going to proceed on doing
clockwise circles so a 1000 I’m gonna
ask you to look straight ahead and let
me just guide you like this give me a
finger and I want you to focus on the
line you have it so let your eyes move
all right so what I’m doing now is
simple clockwise exercises clockwise for
Atena anti-clockwise for the audience
I’m going in and out in and out and I’m
simply forcing her eyes to work together
beautiful
are you okay very good all good is your
pain still five out of ten three four so
there’s a bit of an improvement let’s
see how her eyes are moving so we’ll do
the same test as we did before so if you
can look straight ahead and please look
at the tip of the pen and we could see
that there’s a slight improvement
so if her eyes are moving better than
her posture will also improve let’s look
at your shoulders
Thank You Athena
so as a quick recap the eye exercises
need to be performed three times a day
for approximately thirty seconds the
first step is simply to draw a line on
your index finger your dominant index
finger which means that if you’re
right-handed it will be your right hand
and if you’re left-handed it will be
your left now I want you to start
approximately at 15 centimetres and
bring your finger close to your nose
until you feel that your eyes are
straining at this point I want you to
start moving doing clockwise exercises
clockwise for yourself and no higher
than your mid forehead no lower than
your nose not passing the borders of the
face repeat three times a day morning
afternoon and at supper time so I
exercises are a quick and efficient way
to instantly align our posture and
decrease our pain by seeing our posture
not as a result of biomechanical
structure but rather as a result of
continuous unconscious brain output we
can change our therapeutic approach our
focus shifts upstream to the brain and
not downstream to the muscles and joints
tiny tweaks lead to big changes in just
one minute
a day one minute a day so every day
let’s do some eye exercises so that we
can improve our brain body connection
but let’s also share the science because
it is simple because it is logical share
it with our friends share it with our
families so that we can help improve
their lives so that we can help shape
their lives when talking about true
prevention looking at the brain is key
we can’t afford to live with poor
posture we cannot afford to live with
pain but we can afford one minute a day
to change faulty motor bat patterns and
give ourselves a chance at a better
quality of life thank you
you
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